Welcome to the Community Diner- Dedicated to the Senior
A Safe Place for Adults Approaching Retirement, Senior Citizen, and Retirees
Times are changing and seniors are getting more computer savvy. However, many of the young web developers out there ignore this demographic. This is unfortunate, because as they say “Older is wiser.” With that in mind and thinking about my own family, I decided to dedicate a site to older adults, retirees, and our beloved seniors.
My wife and I always love a good local community diner. The regulars at those diners and social aspect of a local diner are what inspired us to recreate that atmosphere online. Our goal is to provide a safe place where everyone can gather and talk about financial information, investment advice, retirement, traveling, camping, RV-Camping, and any other relevant topics. Our discussion forum is the only part of this site that will require a log-in (eventually) for regular site visitors to see content. This will only be implemented to avoid spam and unwanted guest on our forum. However, we do recommend registration to enjoy all the features of this site. There is the ability to expand and create a social network type atmosphere in the future.
My hope is that we’ll get some experienced veterans of the senior community that can help others who are approaching retirement. We’ve all made mistakes. However, we can learn from others and avoid that rocky road life sometimes brings us. Beyond money, retirement, and traveling, we also hope the Community Diner can become a place where we go to talk to others about health related issues, deaths in the family and our own mortality.
We’ll be looking for forum moderators who want a place to call home and help provide a safe place for everyone to visit. Moreover, there is a wealth of knowledge in our older online community just waiting to be shared. Share your advice, your stories, and a few jokes with us. Do you like the write? You could have your own regular blog column like Two Cents Worth. Moreover, we’re open to your suggestions regarding how we add content to the site and what features you would like to see. Sign up with our forum and become a Community Diner member. Help us create that community atmosphere everyone loves with people from all over the country.
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Community_Diner Often Overlooked It’s no secret that in today’s shallow world of fashion, movies, and TV, that youth is glorified. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on plastic surgery to stay young looking. However, seniors are starting to get recognized. Whether it’s the aging gracefully Sally Fields on the hit TV show Brothers and Sisters, or Bob Lutz as executive of GM, who at age 77, besides working with GM, still flies his jet; being a senior no longer means being out of the limelight of life. Let’s face it, people are living longer. The tech world, however, is a different story. There are very few useful sites created for seniors that aren’t attached to a federal website. This was an obstacle I ran into when developing the Community Diner. Finding content geared toward seniors is difficult to say the least. I remember bring up this concept among a group of developers. The attitude came off as “We would rather work on something that interests us.” I felt differently, knowing all too well that some of America’s smartest people are fifty and older. Is that not interesting enough? Surely they have stories to share and lessons to be learned. Right now the youth of this country still dictates what technology gets developed. This holds true for the web development community also. Older Americans have become more computer savvy in recent years. Many have had to head online for news as many local newspapers have dried up. In addition, many have learned that computers are a great way to stay in touch with friends and family, without the high cost associated with phone and mail. I believe that over the next ten years, our aging population will play a powerful role in technology. It’s a demographic that deserves to be heard and will. If we could only take all of our smartest programmers off video game development and transfer that creative spirit to projects that help develop high quality interactive websites and sites that are geared toward a wider range of the population. Granted, there is lots of talent out there in all fields. However, some of our best and brightest have devoted themselves to a narrow segment of the population completely overlooking our countries growing need for diverse technology.